Eagle Requirements

The Eagle Rank

Eagle Scout Rank Application Packet

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for a least 6 months as a Life Scout.

2. Demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.

3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following: (a) First Aid, (b) Citizenship in the Community, (c) Citizenship in the nation, (d) Citizenship in the world, (e) communications, (f) Personal Fitness, (g) Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving, (h) Environmental Science, (i) Personal Management, (j) Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, (k) Camping, and (l) Family Life. *

4. While a Life Scout, serve actively for a period of 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:

Boy Scout Troop: Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, or instructor.

5. While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) The project idea must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your Scoutmaster and troop committee, and the council or district before you start. You must use the Eagle Scout Leadership Project Workbook in meeting this requirement.

6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference

7. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.

You must choose only one merit badge listed in items g and j. If you have earned more than one of the badges listed in items g and j, choose one and list the remaining badges to make your total of 21.

NOTE: All requirements for Eagle Scout must be completed before the candidates 18^th birthday. The Eagle Scout Board of review can be held after the candidates 18^th birthday. For more information, see Advancement Committee Policies and Procedures, publication.

If you have a permanent physical or mental disability you may become an Eagle Scout by qualifying for as many required merit badges as you can and qualifying for alternative merit badges for the rest. If you seek to become as Eagle Scout under this procedure, you must submit a special application to your local council service center. You application must be approved by your council advancement committee before you can work on alternative merit badges.